19 - More potassium than DMil's banana

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Invisibility Isn't Always A Superpower (Part 3)

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Their conversations were cut short by Disraeli. “It is most obvious what is wrong with him!” he called out to the Speaker. “I dare say Mr Gladstone recalls being in a similar position during the early spring on 1872.”

Despite the heckles from the rest of the portraits to ignore Disraeli’s attention seeking ways, Bercow indulged the portrait’s whims and asked him for further details. Disraeli leisurely divulged that Gladstone’s notable absence from London during the spring of 1872 was not in fact, as so many politicians and journalists of the age believed, because of overseas commitments, but because he awoke one morning to discover himself invisible save for his arms and legs. He hid himself away from the world trying to find a cure only to be told a short time later by his dear wife Catherine (who herself was far from ignorant in the ways of thaumaturgy) that the cause of his affliction was as far from malice as could possibly be.

Gladstone tried to shout the other painted wizard down as he continued his story but with no luck; even Lloyd George shushed the Grand Old Man to hear the cause of his disappearance.

And so Disraeli continued, spinning out the story as long as he could (had George been able to make himself heard, the threats of setting fire to Disraeli’s frame would have rung out clear and true around the office). In the end it transpired that the reason only Gladstone’s arms and legs were visible was because of a curious side effect of wizarding lust; if a sorcerer focuses intently on only parts of an individual, it can cause the rest of the object of desire to fade to nothingness. In order to make the person visible once more, the offending magician must reassure the faded person that they are desired in their entirety rather than just in part. (It was later revealed Disraeli’s smugness was due to Gladstone’s reaction to learning of the extent of Disraeli’s desire; from the day he became fully visible again, Gladstone struggled to look Disraeli in the eyes, a most awkward situation only overcome long after their consciousnesses had resided in their portraits for many years.)

George didn’t hang around long enough to hear Bercow’s pontificating. As soon as he knew the cure, George was out of the office like a shot, determined to get his appearance back.

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